From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17707 invoked by alias); 22 Sep 2003 20:36:54 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 17690 invoked from network); 22 Sep 2003 20:36:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail-out3.apple.com) (17.254.13.22) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 22 Sep 2003 20:36:54 -0000 Received: from scv3.apple.com (scv3.apple.com [17.129.200.139]) by mail-out3.apple.com (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h8MKalmj027398; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 13:36:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from apple.com (vpn-scv-x1-89.apple.com [17.219.193.89]) by scv3.apple.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h8MKaOCn003729; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 13:36:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3F6F5D5F.5090105@apple.com> Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 20:36:00 -0000 From: Stan Shebs User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jim Ingham CC: Michael Elizabeth Chastain , gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Apple and gcc 2? References: <200309192054.h8JKsfvL020287@duracef.shout.net> <712014EF-EAE4-11D7-A429-00039379E320@apple.com> In-Reply-To: <712014EF-EAE4-11D7-A429-00039379E320@apple.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-09/txt/msg00277.txt.bz2 Jim Ingham wrote: > Michael, > > On Sep 19, 2003, at 1:54 PM, Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote: > >> (Obviously where I'm going with this is: figuring out when gdb >> can drop support for gcc 2). > > > I can't really speak to this. I don't really know if/when we are > going to drop support for compiling kext's with 2.95. Apple's hacked GCC 2.95 is needed to build device drivers that will run on Mac OS X 10.1 and 10.0 systems. While probably there are few 10.0 systems out there, there may be several million 10.1 systems, and hardware makers that want to sell to those users will want a GCC 2 compiler. I can't predict when the demand will go away, but presumably at some point the devices' boxes will all say "10.2 or higher only" because the extra sales to 10.1 users won't pay for the necessary testing. Stan